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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14
6rant County grrald.
WALTER G. CHANDLER, PUBLISHER
MONDAY EVENING. MARCH IA.
Aud These be Christian BrOthrs!

1t is difficult to speak with patience of
the recent spectacle in Chicago, where a
conference of Congregational clergymen,
voted down the proposition to send to
Mrs Beecher, sitting by the beadside of
her dying husband, simple message of
coincidence and sympathy. 1t is singu-
lar enough that such a body could for
one moment stop to discuss the proprety
of such an action. 1t was but an ex-
preston of sympathy and not declar
alton of opinions or doctrines, that
had been suggested. From all the cities
of the United States and from cities
across the Atlantic, kilograms had come
to the woman whose husband-the great
est preacher of the age-lay dying. But
it was not within the religion of this
august clerical body to express sympathy
for the wife of a man whose opinions,
and whose spiritual hopes were broader
than theirs 1t was q narrow minded,
bigoted action, view it as you will and
shadows forth none of the teachings of
Him whom these clergymen profess TO
follow. They defend themselves with
weak and offensive logic for this viola
ton of all the precepts of christianity
and all the laws of common decency, one
might say. If their honest motives were
avowed, one would exclaim with Macau-
lay "Oh! the malicious envy of aspiring
ounces" In what school of ethics did
these high minded and self righteous Chi
cago clergymen imbribe the theory that
they were imperilling their orthodox
opinions in sending to Mrs Beecher
their coincidence? The greatest man of
their church lay dying, the man whose
name has been for half a century linden
titled with the history Of that church,
whose whole life has been devoted to
church work, and who in spite of SIAN
ders that would have overwhelmed any
other man has kept his place in the
hearts of his people and bravely and
quietly lived down, where he could, evil
opinions, where he could not has heroic
ally faced it. whatever Mr. Beecher's
deviation from strict orthodoxy has been
this much can be said, his religious
views have only broadened to stretch
around the whole shining, suffering, striv-
ing world the mantle of the charity of
God 1t was not for these men of God
to sit in judgement over this minister of
their church at the moment when the
things of this world were already for him
almost past, but it might have been con-
siderea privilege to express, as part
of the same church to which the dying
man belonged, some brief sentiment of
sympathy and kindness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

in this city, The members of the firm
are becoming millionaires. They have
done all this by keeping their word; by
a clean, manly business record; by being,
in fact, fair and square dealers There
is a great deal in having a reputation of
this character. 1t wins the public con
fidence; it makes and raises up friends
when they are needed in an emergency.
No merchant can afford to be trickey,
even if he has no moral scruples to hinder
him from becoming a party to a sharp
commercial transaction. Keep an hon
Orable record. y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14
How the Germans live.


The Germans begin the day, not
with good American breakfast of
meat and potatoes. but with a cup of
coffee and piece of bread-sometiine
honey with the bread. but rarely but
ter. About the middle Of the forenoon
everybody eats a piece the peasant
and day-laborer eat their hard. brown
bread, and wash it down with a mud
| dy-looking liquid; the skilled workman
also eats brown bread, but has good
beer to drink with it; the merchants
and professional men usually eat their
sandwiches dry; school children at
their morning recess eat their ''pieces"
which they brought from home, or else
buy sandwiches and prttzels German,
| brezct) from the bakers boys who are
on hand with big baskets Others eat
as they 90 along the streets. Almost
invariably relish my 10 o'clock sand
witch, but it makes me feel so like a
boy to eat ..piece" between meals.
The big meal of the day is dinner,
which is usually taken between II and
l., and consists of soups, meats, and
vegetables, and dessert of pastry and
fruit. The soups are excellent. and
vary according to the day of the week.
The meats are generally roasted or
boiled, with occasional fried outlets or
steaks. The vegetables are potatoes
| (not so large or mealy as in Massachu-
setts), red cabbage, white cabbage
(fresh, or as sourkrouD, cauliflower,
kohl rabi, beets, peas, beans, etc The
pastry is destitute of rich, juicy pies,
but has cakes, dumplings, tarts, pam
| cakes, and bakers sweetmeats instead.
Fruit varies with the season. have
had peaches, pears, plums, grapes,
apricots, apples, etc, but no water
melon. | miss the sweet potato very
| much; and | have eaten sweet corn
only once in Europe, and that was at a
| hotel. A few other Americans and
| myself seemed to be the only ones
who knew how to manage the punv
| ears, the rest not knowing whether TO
cut them up with knife and fork or to
| eat them like bananas. This reminds
me of an American who, at hotel one
| day, called for some crackers, and
thereby astonished party of English
people who heard him. The English
say biscuit instead of crackers, and fully
expected to see the waiter appear with
| plateful of firecrackers.
In the middle of the afternoon the
Germans have bread and coffee, after
which they fast until between and s
in the evening. Then they have sup
per, which is similar to the dinner.
with the exception of dessert FIRE.
| luently the family remain around the
supper table after it is cleared, and
spend the evening Especially if COM
pany is presently in conversation moist
ened with beer or other drinks and
sweetened with confectionery. - Cor.
Boston AdUertiscr.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14
Death OF Capt. Eads.


Last Tuesday, the 9Th inst, Capt.
Eads the famous engineer died at Mas
sau at the age of sixty-seven. Captain
Eads is we'll known for his services dur
ing the war and as the builder of the
great bridge across the Mississippi at
st. Louis, as the maker of the Jetties at
the mouth of that river, and the pro-
jec.oT of a scheme for building ship
railway across the Isthmus of Tehuan-
tepec. At the outbreak of the war he
submitted to the government plan for
defending the Western waters, and in
'62 and SO he designed and constructed
the first light iron-clad steamers in the
q. S. Navy, and later he built six iron
clad gun-boats with rotating turrets. 1t
is said of him in the History of the Navy
during the Rebellion, that he ''put into
construction and pushed to completion
within one hundred days a powerful
squadron of eight steamboats,, aggre-
eating 5000 tons, capable of steaming
nine knots an hour, large and heavily
armed, fully equipped and ready for
armament of 107 large guns. The fact
that such a work was done is nobler
praise than can be bestowed by any
words" The history of Capt. Eads'
life goes to show, how with no fortune
but an inventive brain and indomita BILE
pluck one can accomplish what he will.
Capt. Eads was born in 1920 at Law
renceburg, Indiana. He showed great
mechanical genius at an early age and
vas always tinkering in his small work
shop, turning out miniature engines,
electrical machines and the like. In
1888 in consequence of reverses in the
family, he went to St. Louis to earn his
own living and landed penniless boy
on the levee almost on the very spot
where rests the abutment of his magni-
ficent steel bridge, which is the admira-
ton of engineers the world over. So
fortune rewards pluck and push, which
have their impulse in an inventive brain.
The penniless boy became wealthy
man, the young ''tinkerer" one of the
most eminent engineers. In 1881 the
British Society of Arts bestowed upon
him the Albert Medal. He has for
many years been an invalid, but he has
worked to the last and to last hoped
to live to see his great ship-railway
completed. Death has cancelled that
hope, but who shall say that his in
fuence will not still work toward the
achievement of his great project.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14
EsTATE.-MArn1As RoEsoH, Deceased.

State of Wisconsin, County Court of Grant
County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given. that at the general term
in the County Court to be held in and for said
county, at the Court House in the city of Ian
caster, in said county, on the
FIRST TUESDAY OF APRIL A. d. 1857,
being the 9Th day of April. 1887, at the hour of
ten O'Clock in the forenoon, the following matter
will be heard and considered:
The application of Julia Roesch for the APP
pointment of an administrator for the estate of
Matthias Roesch, late of the town of Potosi, in
said Grant county deceased.
BY order of the Court,
GEO B. CARTER, County Judge.
Dated March II, 1887. 3w3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

In Richland county, near Excelsior,
this state. James Taylor, famer, while
engaged in digging well, found IN a bed
OF gravel about twenty feet below the
surface double handful of the most
beautiful amethyst stones, and one very
large and valuable ruby.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

There is a good deal of exitmsnt in
Baltimore on the probable change in
management of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad. They fear their city will
loose its Importance as the terminus of
a great trunk line,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

Mrs. Lucy Parsons career as a lee
turer has ingloriously closed. Her ar
rest at Columbus, Ohio, took place last
week, and as she has no friend there
who will go security for her appear
ance before the criminal court. She
is under $500 bonds to keep the peace.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

A white man Vas sold the other day,
under the vagrancy law in Kentuckey,
for one dollar There is need of Just
such cheap men at all political centers,
for so few men can be bought at a rea-
sonable price.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

There are not wanting indications al
ready that the Utah Saints are not
going to stop at anything short of the
penitentiary in evading the new anti
polygamy law.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

Rev. Olympia Brown delivered the
funeral Grafton over the remains of Col
onel William Utley. who was buried
at Racine last week.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

Another Earthquake shock was felt al
Nice, in Southern France, Saturday.
creating panic.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

New York has lost within a short
time from her leading citizens, Grant,
Tilden, Vanderbilt, Seymour, Arthur
and Beecher.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

Senator Sherman has started out on q
sort of pre-presidential tour. There may
be luck in it. but time will tell
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14
There is hardly Post Office in the
United States where at least a few
copies are not received each
week by subscribers.
lsuccessor to Jacob Drew

1t embraces the best Features of The DAI-
LY GRAPHIC. pictorial and literary,for the pre-
ceeding six days. 1t is the largest frst-class
Illustrated Weekly issued, is sold for half the
price of its rivals, contains the latest news
and market reports, and is acquiring phenom-
email circulation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

The Massachusetts Legislature has re-
jected proposition to give suffrage to
women
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

Invitations are out for the wedding
of John A. Logan Jr. and Miss Edith II
Andrews to take place March %.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

Large numbers of persimmon logs
are being shipped to the north from
Norfolk, Va, to be manufactured into
shoe LASTS for which they are said to
be particularly adapted.
During the past year twenty-five
thousand articles have accumulated in
the dead-letter office. The sale includ-
ed all sorts of neeessaries and luxuries,
from Easter eggs to seersucker suits.
The late Truman NJ. Post of st.
Louis the pioneer of Congregational
ism in the West, learned Latin from Il
grammar fastened to the handle of his
pillow when a farm-boy in Vermont.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14

A 5-year-old friend of ours, starting
out for children's party the other af-
ternoon, remarks to the maid who is
taking him to the place of entertain
ment: We'll, I've made up my mind
to be perfect gentleman to-day; l
don't mean TO kick single girl" Up
on his return home he was questioned
as to his behavior by his mamma.
well. he said. ',the only thing did
was to yell Chestnuts' when they
played the 'Mikado' on the piano. y
Harper'S Bd7dr.
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04

announcing that General Sheridan
 was going to take ride with a party of friends through the Shenandoah
 Valley, over the scene of his opera. tions during the war. This brought
 out general Rossers letter raking up old animosities. Then a newspaper quarrel ensued among Rosser and his friends regarding the advisability of General Rosser taking the course he had, then Sheridan had to reply to some personal charges made against him and since, letters of Gen. Grant were published to show that the char ges made by General Rosser against Sheridan were unfoundcd. In short, old sores were reopened and old issues raked up in very unpleasant way. Now, General Sheridan says he never intended to take such a ride, nev- CT said word regarding it and first heard of it when he was shown Genl. Rossers letter,in a newspaper.
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04

THE last relic of active rebellion seems to remain where we least ought to expect finding it---within the pale of a powerful christian church. It is we'll known that at the commence ment of the war the Preysbyterian church divided into north and south and they have never yet clasped hands over the bloody chasm. Both sections of the church have been holding their annual assembley's sim. ultaneously, one in Omaha the other in St. Louis. and oyertures from the northern branch for the purpose of restoring the amity and unity of anti bellum days have been rudely and bitterly opposed by the southern as. sembly, the opposition being led by one Dr. Shoot, of Texas. It is strange that body of men who claim to be followers of Him who taught the doc Urine of "Peace on earth and good will toward men" should persist in keeping alive animosities which those whom .they class as ungodly, have long since buried.
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04
RAILROAD NEWS,

More locomotives have been or, dered for the increased traffic of the A. & P. road.
 John Finn, engineer of the con. struction train on the Mineral Belt railroad will shortly obtain leave oi absence and start on a visit to his home in New York state.
 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe system employs 1000 men.
 The A. T. & S. F. company made several changes in their officials on June Ist. George L. Sands ceases to be Genernl Superintendent of the Atlantic and Pacific and his place Is taken by J. H. Scott.
 Geo. L. Sands has been appointed General Superintendent of the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe and the Chicago, Kansas and Western lines.
 D. ]. Chase has accepted the gen. eral superintendency of the Chicago, Santa Fe and California railroad.
 Jay Gould is reported as stating that he will build 6,ooo miles of rail road in the next twelve months. -.--- -.---
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04

BouLANGER is occupying a remark able position in French politics. The country is continually apprehensive of war with Germany and a large portion of the people seem desirous oft. General Boulanger seems to be looked up to as a great military lead CT and yet he has no great military record. A strange thing this, as ot all professions it is the one where deeds alone can build up great re- putation. Battles may be planned on paper, but they must be won in the field, and until the opportunity comes of conducting a successful campaign, it cannot be known who will make a great general. Our war showed us very plainly that the most promising military aspirants frequently turned out the worst failures. Yet the eyes of the French people are looking to- wards a man as the future leader of their armies, who has yet to win his spurs as a military commander. are difficult to understand they are always setting up or knock ing down some idol. AS Voltaire once said, "When God Almighty made the earth, He created human nature and French nature."
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04

An important fact showing the growth of business in the southwest is revealed by Bradstreet's last monthly railway report, which states that the receipts of the southwestern roads for the month of April 1887 was s3,33I,- 776 against Sa,7I6,3sS for the cor responding month of last year. This is an increase of a6 per cent, much larger growth than is shown by any other section of the country.
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04

FoR some reason the management of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad have consistently acted in a manner detrimental to the interests of Flag staff. While little one-horse places have commodious and handsome de- pot buildings, the railroad business of Flagstaff, which is more than that of any three towns on the whole line ofroad, excepting Albuquerque,i is still done in an old box car. While pro- viding no conveniences and accord ing no consideration to the residents of ,the town, the company seem to be claiming all the land contiguous to the line of the road and are making new tracks unpleasantly near to busi- ness houses and residences. The po- licy pursued by the A. & P. manage ment towards point of such consid- erable commercial importance to their road is inexplicable, unless it orgi- mates from revengeful feeling on the part of some of the subordinate off, cers, at their failure in removing the location of the town and the junction of the Mineral Belt road, to a site that would have been advantageous to their personal interests.
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04
NOTICE
Of SheriTs Sale on For
 clOseure of Mortgage.
FRANK DAGGS, Plaintiff.

YS.
 JAMES A. LAMPORT, Defendant.
 Under and by virtue of an order of sale and decree of foreclosure issued out of the District Court, of the Thlrd Judicial District in and for the County of YavapaI, Territory of Arizona, on the 23rd day of May A. D. 1887, in the above entitled action, where in Frank Daggs, the above named plaintiff, obtained judgment and decree against James A. Lamport, defendant, On the 10th day of December A. D. ISS6, which said judgment and decree is ec0rded in iudg- ment book No. 5 on pages ISo, ISI and IS2 of said District Court.
 am commanded to sell all and singula ar the following described lands and premises sit. uated lying and being in the village of Flag staff, in the County of favapai and Territory of Arizona, and particularly described as follows, to wit; The equal undivided one half interest in and to lots five (5) and SIX (6) in block No. two (2) known as the "Flagstaf Hotel" and saloon buildings and premises adjoining thereto on the westerly side thereof together with all and singular the tenements, heredtaments and appurten- ances thereunto belonging or in any wise apperaining.
 Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, the 2Ist day of June 1887, at 10 o'clock a. m. of that day. in front of the north door of the court house. in the City of Prescott, County of Yavapai, Territory of Arizona, in obedience to said order of sale and decree of foreclosure sell the above described prop erty, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy plaintiffs judgment with interest thereon and costs and accruing costs to the highest and best bidder for cash.
 w. ] MULVENON, Sheriff.
 By G. C. WADDELL, Under Sheriff. Dated, Prescott, May zS,. 1887.
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04


 The liquor men and the prohibit tionists of Pennsylvania are working together hand in hand against high license, and a state convention is an nounced to be held in July for the purpose of making a vigorous and united attack upon the system. Did 1t never occur to the benighted intel . lects of the prohibitionists, that the whiskey distillers are afraid of high license but that they are not afraid of prohibition1 They know that the lat. ter cannot be enforced and they are equally sure that the former, by clos ing up the low class saloons will des. troy the consumption of the cheap poison from which they derive the largest portion of thelr profits.
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04

Ar meeting of prohibitionists in Pennsylvania one orator is reported to have remarked that "whlskey and women were at the bottom of all the trouble in the world" While denying the truth of this statement as regards women, it is pertinent question to ask, what are you going to do about ita You can't abolish the one any more than you can the other, But judicious regulations are necessary for both,
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04
MEMORIAL day of this year SC

MEMORIAL day of this year seems to have been observed with more con- sideration throughout the country than in any previous year, and one pleasant feature of the occasion was its entire freedom from all political predjudices and party feelings. Few small towns made a better showing than Flagstaff. Business was entirely suspended and the large attendance of the general public at the memorial seryices, the attention paid to the beautiful ritual of the order and the eloquent addresses which followed all betokened general appreciation of the day, which is gratifying.
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04

PARTIES who visit the Grand Canon of the Colorado by the way of Flag staff see but very little of it, except from the high bluffs overhanging the river. By taking the Peach Springs route one can get down into the canon itself and go up and down the river for miles. The Peach Springs route is the only practicable one, if the tourist wants to enter the Gratd Canon without risking his neck, and by this route he can ride in buck board to the rivers nk.-Mohave Miner,
 There is a good deal of truth in the above, twisted SO as to make it very deceptive. It is true, you can ride to the rivers brink in a blackboard without risking your neck, by the Peach Springs route, and you can go up and down the canon without much exertion, but then it is not much of canon to go up and down, at that point. It bears about the same rela- ton to the the canon north of Flag staff, in regard to size and magnih- cence,as the village of Peach Springs does to the city of Chicago. Going to see the Grand Canon of the Colorado by the Peach Springs blackboard route is something like taking man up into Northern Montana and pointing out little stream he can jump over, and tell him 1t is the Missouri river. It is perfectly true, but it don't give him much of an idea of the "big muddy" as she looks when rolling into the lap of the "Father of waters" just above St. Louis.
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04

EVIDENCE given before the Union Pacific Commission throws some light on the manner by which Jay Gould has made his immense fortune. He made three millions in one day by a ruse which would be called fraud if a peor man had made three hundred by similar means,
The Arizona champion., 1887-06-04

QUEEN VICTORIA has now passed her 6Sth birthday and this month will complete the soth year of her reign. As there are four European Monarchs older than her, headed by the Em- peror of Germany who is over 90. Royalty would seem 10 be conducive 10 longevity,